Improvement in apparatus for filling bottles



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H. GYODD. Apparatus for Filling Bottles. No. 203,243. Patented Nlay 7, 1878.

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4 Specificationforming part of Letters Patent N. 4(fitted My 7, 1875; application filed Toall whom'z't may concern;

Lane, Gamberwell, inthe county of Surrey,

England, have invented new and useful lin-1, provements in Apparatus for Filling Aerated Liquids into Bottles which have Internal Stoppers, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. Heretofore apparatus for fllin g bottles which have globular or internal stopperswith aerat ed liquids have been so constructed that the bottles, when being filled or charged, have had to be held up to a nozzle, through which the liquidis supplied, and before bein gremoved from the nozzle have had to be inverted, the nozzle turning on a joint to allow of this being done. The ball or stopper then drops to the mouth of the bottle and at once closes it, when the bottle is drawn back from the nozzle. The disadvantages of this arrangement are that the apparatus is costly, and that, by reason of each bottle having to be inverted after it is filled, more time than necessary is taken up in the filling and closing of the bottles.

By my invention I am enabled `to ll and close bottles such as are described in the specification of aformerpatent of the United States, No. 129,652, granted to me July 28 187 2, without the necessity of inverting them, as heretofore. These bottles are fitted with an internal globular stopper, and the stopper is retained in the neck of the bottle by a contraction at the lower part of the neck, so that the stopper cannot drop away very far from the mouth.

To fill such bottles, Inow cause them, while beingl filled or charged, to be held in an inclined position, and, when filled, move them quicklybaok away from the lling-tube, whereby the ball, notbeing moved back withthe bottle, at once comes up to and closes the mouth.

Figure 1 shows a plan View, Fig. 2 a side .view, and Fig. 3 an end view, of apparatus constructed to ll bottles in the manner above described. Figs. 4 and 5 show some of the parts in detail and to a larger scale.

a is an inclined table, mounted on any suitable stand. Above this table are two fixed parallel rods, b, upon which slides a block or bottle-holder, c. In the upper face of this botj 'y i tie-holder isaeavity, intowhih the tennero i Be it known that 1, HIRAM CODD, of `Grove be lfilled' is placed, as shown;` The cavity (shown in the drawing) is' shaped so as to recei'v'e threediefrentforms of bottles. "d d are chains [attached to theV bottle-holder, and led over pulleys d toa treadle or lever, so that by depressing'the treadle or moving the lever the bottle-holder c can be shifted vupward along" the rods b. When the bottle-holder is 'thus drawn upward, the head of the bottle carried by" it is` brought up to the nozzle e, through which the` aerated liquid is to be supplied. The nozzle' e is carried by a block or fillinghead, f, which is free to slide a distance to and fro upon ii'Xed guide-rods g, and is held in its forward position by coiled springs h. i is an elastic ring carried at the front of the blockf. This serves to make a tight joint around the head of a bottle when the bottle is pressed up toward it. j is a valve, closing the end of the pipe through which aerated liquid is supplied. The seat in which this valve works is xed by a screw-standard, 7a, to the table. The stem j of the valve is hollow, and projects Vforward into a recess in the block f. L is an elastic ring at the front of the seat or block in. which the valvej is contained. When the head of a bottle is forced against the elastic ring t it presses back the block f, and, after moving it back a distance, the block comes against the end of the stemj ofthe valvej, and forces this valve back from its seat, so allowing` aerated liquid to flow from the supply-pipe through the hollow stein of the valve, and through the nozzle into the bottle. At the same time a tight joint is made between the back end of the fillinghead or block f and the elastic ring l. As the .bottle fills, the air previously in the bottle is free to escape by the passage m. The freedom with which it is allowed to escape can be controlled by more or less screwing in the screwvalve o.

When the bottle has been filled the pressure upon the treadle is relieved 5 then jerk or suddenly and quickly force back the bottle* holder and bottle, while the stopper, not being carried back with the bottle, comes up to the mouth of the bottle and at once closes it.

Small spring-buffers (not shown in the drawing) are used to arrest a backward movement Heated to the baarle-holder a draw and noia it back.

In place of the bottle-holder being arranged v to'slide to and fro on Xed guides in the line of movement of the nozzle or lli-ng-head, it. the valve j, and movable block f in front of might be carried by lever-arms which would similarly allow of its moving tol c'arryt'he' bottle endwise up to and away from the filling-nozzle.

I claim- 1. The hereinbeforedescried improvement in the method of tillin g bottles having internal Stoppers, which Iconsists in placing the bottle in a sliding holder, adjis'ting its' head to the filling-nozzle, and, when filled, quickly withdrawing it endwise from the nozzle by a sudden movement of the holder, which causes the stopper to 'come' up to the mouth of the bottle and close it.

2. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore setforth, of a sliding bottle-holder, a filling-head or' nozzle, and means for imparting to the holder-a sudden movement away from said nozzle". l

3. The combination, substantially as'hejreinbefore Set forth, o'f a sliding bottle-holder, a sliding filling-head or nozzle, toward and 'away fram which sam beider moves', Gaming the" bottieendw'se, the' valve-stem to admit liquid to said sliding head, and its valve, automatically opened by the pressure of the bottlehead and closed by its sudden withdrawal.

4. The combinationof the bottle-holder c',

valve', and pressedforward by springs or equivalent means, the whole acting substantial-'ly `as herein described.

5. The combination, Substantially a's hereinbefore set forth, of the sliding head or nozzle,

its springs, its front packing-ring, its back packing-ring, the fluid-pipe, the valve-stem, and the valve.

6. The combination of the inclined table, the rods, the bottle-holder sliding thereon, the sliding head, its springs, theA packing, and lthe valve, these members being constructed and operating' substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

H. CODD. 

